School of Civil and Resource Engineering

Name of Staff	Research Interests
Prof Mark Randolph	Centrifuge model testing Foundation analysis and design Foundation engineering Geotechnical engineering Numerical and analytical methods Offshore geomechanics Pile dynamics Soil mechanics Soil-structure interaction
Prof Martin Fahey	Foundation analysis and design Geotechnical engineering Laboratory and in-situ testing Offshore geomechanics Slope stability Soil mechanics
Prof Arcady Dyskin	Calculations of stress-strain state in rock masses with interacting openings Effective characteristics of materials with cracks Fracture mechanics Fracture of rocks Geotechnical engineering Mechanisms of crack growth Numerical and analytical methods Rock mechanics Scale effect Voids and inclusions
A/Prof Barry Lehane	Foundation analysis, design and engineering In-situ and laboratory testing Centrifuge and field testing Soil mechanics Numerical analysis

Name of Student	Email	Topic of Thesis	Supervisor
Barbosa-Cruz, Edgard (PhD)	ecruz@civil.uwa.edu.au		Prof Mark Randolph
Chen, Wen (PhD)	chenw@cyllene.uwa.edu.au		Prof Mark Randolph
Chung, Shin Fun (PhD)	shinfun@civil.uwa.edu.au		Prof Mark Randolph
Devkota, Anju (Masters)	sharma@cyllene.uwa.edu.au		Prof Martin Fahey
Elkhatib, Sarah (PhD)	sarahe@civil.uwa.edu.au		Prof Mark Randolph
Xu, Xiangtao (PhD)	xu@civil.uwa.edu.au	Base resistance of pipe piles in sand (ARC funded 004-2006)	A/Prof Barry Lehane
Schneider, James (PhD)	schneider@civil.uwa.edu.au	shaft resistance of piles in sand (ARC funded 2004-2006)	A/Prof Barry Lehane
Zaremba, Natusha (PhD)	zaremba@civil.uwa.edu.au	Tunnelling induced movements in Perth CBD (funded by Leighton-Kumagai 2004-2007)	A/Prof Barry Lehane

Title of Project	Principal Investigators	Source of Funding	Status
The effect of anchor piles on test pile response	A/Prof Barry Lehane	Ove Arup & Partners	In progress
Liquefaction assessment of Perth sands	A/Prof Barry Lehane	Golder Associates	In progress
Scale effects for interface friction in piles	A/Prof Barry Lehane & Christophe Gaudin	ARC	In progress
Development of a revised Schmertmann method for shallow foundations on sand	A/Prof Barry Lehane & Conleth O'Loughlin	ARC	In progress
Rate effects for piezocone testing in silt	A/Prof Barry Lehane & Fernando Schnaid	ARC	In progress
Transmission tower foundations	A/Prof Barry Lehane & Christophe Gaudin	Univ of Southampton	In progress
Modelling pipe pile in clay	A/Prof Barry Lehane & Xiangtao Xu	HoHai Univ., China	In progress
1-D and shear induced creep in soft soils	A/Prof Barry Lehane & Conleth O'Loughlin	ARC	In progress
Sand stiffness for foundation design using vs and DMT data	A/Prof Barry Lehane & Prof Martin Fahey	ARC	In progress
Cyclic behaviour of pile groups in sand	A/Prof Barry Lehane & Dr Christophe Gaudin	Ove Arup & Partners	In progress

Geomechanics